Dubbed “Superfoot” by manager/PKA President Don Quine after
he saw a sign for “super foot long hot dogs” at a Lakers basketball game.The moniker references the fact that, owing
to a 1967 judo injury to his right knee, Wallace only kicked with his left leg,
often in single-leg side kick/hook kick/round kick combinations.Wallace’s left-leg kicks were clocked at
speeds in excess of 60 mph.

SPECIALTY FIGHTING SKILLS

Left-leg multiple kicks on the outside, left hook on the
inside in combination with an elusive defense.

Any
stand-up combative sport where competitors fight with kicks and punches for a
knockout or multi-judge decision over scheduled rounds divided by rest
periods. Throughout the 1980s, the STAR System World Kickboxing Ratings
strictly distinguished between kickboxing which prohibited clinch-fighting
and muay Thai which permitted clinch-fighting. STAR regarded kickboxing and
muay Thai as different sports. Since that era, combative sports have become
more broadly divided between kickboxing and mixed martial arts. Sanctioning
bodies have embraced competition and established kickboxing titles under
multiple rule formats. For the sake of the historic record, all prominent
rule formats have been indicated within ring record compilations.

EXPERIMENTAL – variable rule schemes from the early formative
period of kickboxing (i.e. USKA, WSMAC, NKL), or special negotiated rules to
enable a mix-match between contestants from otherwise different combative sports
(i.e. kickboxer versus muay Thai fighter)

M-WIN – official draw
or no-decision in which the contemporaneous media sports reporters express a
dominant opinion about who won

STAR Equalization Findings

For
purposes of world-rated kickboxing competition and record keeping, STAR equalization
findings differentiated between amateur and professional bouts, excluded bouts
from other related combative sports (boxing, muay Thai, grappling), as well as
arbitrated any peculiarities that occurred in the early and unruly era of
kickboxing’s rapidly changing rules and uneven standards for fair competition. The
STAR System had no interest in
advancing one competitor over another and never interfered with a competitor’s
official kickboxing record beyond the aforementioned distinctions.

*1

Wallace v Lewis:
The sport’s first Pay-Per-View broadcast. Although officially an exhibition, ISKA
judges brought in scores of 67-67, 67-67 and 67-66 for Wallace. At age 46,
Lewis weighed 199 pounds; at age 45, Wallace weighed 166 pounds. Wallace and
Lewis were good friends. Wallace earned $25,000; Lewis $17,500.

*2

Wallace v Corley-2:
This bout was originally intended as an out-of-retirement exhibition but
local press pressured the fighters into an actual bout. Wallace and Corley
had become close friends since their first bout. Although the contact was
real, both fighters admitted that neither was aggressively trying to knock
out the other. Scores: 30-26, 30-27, 30-27 for Wallace.

Wallace v Grothe:
The 3-punch rule prohibits more than three consecutive punches without a
kick.

*7

Wallace v Herdel:
Dieter Herdel sometimes reported as Greg Hertel.

*8

Wallace v Corley:
First ever world title defense. 12,000 spectators. New rules raise world
title bouts to 9 by 2-minute rounds with 1-minute rest periods. A minimum
kick requirement of 6 per round replaces the 3-punch rule. Wallace and Corley
each earned $7,000.

*9

Wallace v Richer-1:
10,000 spectators: The 3-punch rule prohibits more than three consecutive
punches without a kick. Wallace earned $2,000. Broadcast over ABC-TV’s “Wide
World of Entertainment” on 27 December 1974 at 11:30 p.m.

*10

Wallace v Grothe:
Under the rules, this TKO resulted from a throw and single follow-up punch
while down. Bout is sometimes misreported as a TKO in round two owing to a
typo on Wallace’s record as issued by PKA Headquarters in 1980.